Jana Aleksić, PhD

Born on May 10th, 1984 in Kragujevac. Graduated from the Belgrade University, Faculty of Philology, Department of Serbian Literature and Language with Comparative Literature, with the thesis “Narrative devices in Goran Petrovic’s Novels”. Received the “Radmila Popovic Award” for the best graduate paper dealing with Serbian XX Century Literature in 2009. Received her MA in April 2010 at the study programme Serbian Literature and Language with Comparative Literature, with the thesis “Legitimisation of Postmodernism in Contemporary Serbian Prose” (Radoman Kordic, Postmodern Narration, Prosveta, Beograd, 1998). Currently pursuing her PhD studies at the Belgrade University, Faculty of Philology, at the literature module.

She writes poetry and publishes in anthologies and periodicals. While working at the radio station „Zlatousti“, she edited and presented broadcasts on education, edification, older Serbian literature, contemporary interpretations of key moments in Serbian history, contemporary trends in literary fiction, spiritual and scientific-essayistic literature, as well as on the phenomena of the postmodern social condition.